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Wednesday, 7 November 2012

To You From Me

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and having a good week. My week is going well so far, I've been colouring and crafting and managed to get a DT post done and published only a couple of hours late! ha haa.

So this is a Colouring Inspiration post for Make It Crafty, using the gorgeous Melody. She is available as a digi image and comes with the cushion as a separate image, so you can either use her alone, merge her with the cushion, or merge her with another background instead.
I decided to take up Zoe's challenge of non-related colouring mixing; that is, blending colours from different families. So often when we colour, we'll use shades from the same colour family to add our shading and highlights, but it's fun and interesting to mix it up a bit and shade with something from a different colour group.

In this image, I've used copic markers to colour the dress in non-related colours. The background of the fabric is coloured with a turquoise marker (from the Blue-Green family) and shaded with a marker from the Blue family. And I used a marker from the Yellow family for the flowers and an orange (Yellow-Red family) to add shading. The cushion also has some non-related colour mixing, this time some pale orange (Yellow-Red family) and some browns (from the Earth colours family). I think the end result looks a little more vibrant than my usual way of choosing colours to blend, so I'll be using this technique again.

These are the shades I used on this card:

Dress: BG13 + B05 + B34; Y17 + YR04 + YR07

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, E13; R20, R22

Hair & Boots: N2, N4, N6, N8, N10

Cushion: YR000, YR20, E31, E35

My good news is that I'm able to sit up at the table to colour again.....no more half-lying on the sofa working at odd angles and losing my markers down the sides of the cushions. And I celebrated my return to uprightness by promptly dropping a bright orange marker on my half-finished colouring (doh!!!!). I cleaned it up best I could, but I wasn't going to bin it just because of that, so if you do happen to see my little orange boo-boo on the card, pretend you didn't notice it (wink).

Morning Carole, and a lovely sunny, if cold, one it is too!First up, I think you might want to change hate to late in your post LOL.In answer to your question, I have about 7 scrapbooks on the go.I re-read that post and realise that it would be easy to read it as the car was disappearing LOL.I am so pleased to hear that you are able to do you colouring in a more natural position now...hugsYour card is stunning, you colouring is even more stunning, and your colour mix is brilliant :o)Jackie xx

A Stunning card Carole..Glad that you are at last sitting at the table to do your colouring...LOving all your colours as always and a FABulous design..LOve that cushion! Will put in on my wish list..It could be used for T....ChrissyxxOh! And Thank you for showing us your colours xx

WOW, Carole...you have really brought her to life with your fabulous coloring...this is sooo amazing!!!!! I don't know how you manage to color black sooo perfectly....I get it all over me and non-black parts of the image, too...LOL!!!! I'm so sorry I haven't been to visit you in a while...I just hate it when life gets in the way of visiting my blog friends!!!! We had a big Halloween week and then my church craft sale was last Saturday...sure glad that is over till spring!!! My little fingers have been stamped down to the bones...LOL!!!!! We still have all our house guests but we are all getting used to eachother...the dogs all know their bounderies and have been really good. We are really going to miss them when they leave!!! Anyway...hope all is well with you and your hubby!!!

OH YEAH!!! Carole, this is GREAT! LOVE the coloring, especially her boots, AWESOME!!! Love the colors too, so vibrant and HAPPY! Plus, it's such a cute digi! That turquoise stitched background paper looks super. I have some in olive green that I've had for over a year and have never used it! Now YOU have inspired me, lol! (You always do!) Hope you find some energy to craft this weekend, I'll be thinking of you! BIG HUGS & aloha, Joanne xxx

Loving this, I bought this image, not sure where it is , must look in the files I have here. Brilliant job, thanks for putting up the colours I still need to get more copics, never sure what to get though. Love "HER" xxx